Leonard Cohen (with Jennifer Warnes) - If It Be Your Will - video free download
When asked to explain this song, Cohen replied that it was "a murmured prayer". Typical Cohen mystique. I chose symbols to represent the meaning it has for me. Some of the images used in this video are a brief reference to the 5 years that Cohen spent secluded in a Zen monastery.
Appears on the albums, "Various Positions" (1984), "The Essential Leonard Cohen" (2002) and "Live in London" (2008)
Jennifer Warnes, often referred to as "the singer's singer", is the female back-up who also did a very successful tribute album to Cohen "Famous Blue Raincoat" (1987).
Comments
8 years ago
Ella Southportfair
if it be your will..................9 years ago
Derek Starpass
~ If It Be Your Will ~9 years ago
David Arulnathan
If it be Your Will.....take me Lord...take me Jesus....(The prayer from Jesus to his Father, The Broken Hill refers to Golgotha, )9 years ago
Bob Reed
Another beauty, Adam!9 years ago
Robert Wright
jennifer warnes, fine vocalist, may never have gotten huge acclaim ('cept for her duets, perhaps) but was blessed and talented enough to sing with one of the finest songwriters of our age...cohen wrote some biggies...and i have always loved her voice9 years ago
MultiAbcde111
The most beautiful prayer of the XXth Century.9 years ago
Maria Meireles
Grande poeta, músico magnífico9 years ago
Maayke Langelaar
Beautiful, both the song and the pictures...9 years ago
Renata Anna Jaglinska
a new day!:)10 years ago
Alicia13202
BEAUTIFUL!!!10 years ago
Saberol
Thank you onlinelondon. You have said it best.10 years ago
Saberol
When you are an intellectual like L Cohen, you would invariably make references in your various works to God, the force that pulls you up, as another poet said. This song, a sensitive poem of yearning, is full of surrender to God starting from its title, and evokes the image of Jesus in Gethsemane and on the cross surrendering his own will for that of the Heavenly Father. L Cohen for me has the passion and deep thirst for God, as his fellow poets John Donne and Gerald Manley Hopkins.10 years ago
Mirafjori
♥♥♥ I do not follow any religion but this song always gets me!!! Also love The Webb Sisters version of it :-) ♥♥♥10 years ago
toopoable
I'm weeping.10 years ago
Jan Denis
In één woord - machtig!!!!!10 years ago
Sue Piscatello
As much as I adore her ... this version, with him, is better than her solo version. Thank you for posting. xoxo10 years ago
Imke Vermeulen
It´s ,at least I think, The prayer from Jezus to his Father, The Broken Hill refers to Golgotha, Did I read this some where of puzzle it out, Zen ,, I see no Zen,10 years ago
Suzanne Geraci
Thank you for posting this.... Exquisite singing and images.......11 years ago
Poet Mountain
Love Leonard Cohen and have for over 40 years. O! that dated me, ha. Well done!Related Videos
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